"Agartha is inspired by fantasy RPG's in general, and an Earth Dawn setting of my brother's imagination, ripe with mummified ancestors entombed in ancient cavern halls, in particular. Old ideas of a race of pale, cave-dwelling humanoids from my ideas of the game “Shepherds of Creation” completed the conglomerate. Think of opulent halls adorned with riches of the deeper earth in which reside ancient bloated oracles with pallid skins ruling their kin with increasing desperation; desperation because their proud race is dying. Agartha is perhaps the most tragic of the nations in Dominions. Surviving oracles cling to memories of a glorious past unable to stop the unavoidable disappearance of their ancient race. I wanted a sense of loss to permeate the nation. " -Illwinter

In dark caverns under the Roots of the Earth a strange kind of one-eyed humanoids once evolved. Untouched by the sun, they became known to humans as the Pale Ones. When humans first met these pale giants, it was in war. With the destruction of the false god of the Pale Ones, an ancient Seal was broken and vast powers of destruction were released. The Pale Ones were almost wiped out of existence and humans could move down into the caverns of Agartha. Here they found fabulous riches and ancient secrets. The humans replaced the Pale Ones and now all Agarthans are pale-skinned humans with large eyes. Everything left by the Ancients became subject to worship in Agartha. At first, statues of the Ancients were adored and animated by the Golem Crafters, but most of the statues were destroyed during the great war and new forms of worship have evolved. The mummified remains of the now-extinct Pale Ones are worshipped and reanimated by necromancer-priests. While the mummies of Pale Ones are sacred, the human dead are not treated with the same respect. Used for menial tasks and warfare, the dead of Agartha now walk side by side with the living.

How the nation plays and what it is good at should go here, aka why would it be cool to play, whats good about it (in general terms) and where they falter possibily there could be a standard for nation classification (sacred heavy, elves, communion nation, blood nation, research, economical, forging, stealth, thug based etc)

• Summon Penumbrals Conj 3, 11, 6. (Penumbral x4)
• Awaken Shard Wights Conj 3, 11, 15. (Shard Wight x5+[1/2 Lv])
• Summon Umbrals Conj 5, 21, 8. (Umbral x4)
• Awaken Sepulchral Conj 5, 21, 4. (Sepulchral)
• Awaken Tomb Oracle Conj 6, 32, 30. (Tomb Oracle)
• Hall of the Dead Conj 8, 51, 25. (Shard Wight x20+[4/Lv])

• Iron Marionettes Alt 5, 3, 1.

• Iron Corpse Reanimation Enchament 2, 11, 2. (Iron Corpsex5+[1/2 Lv])
• Reanimate Ancestor Enchament 2, 22, 3. (Iron Ancestorx1)
• Flame Corpse Construction Enchament 4, 11, 1. (Flame Corpsex1)
• Nightmare Construction Enchament 5, 11, 2. (Flame Barrel Nightmarex1)
• Ktonian Legion Enchament 6, 22, 15. (Iron Corpsex30+[5/Lv])

What magic path/mages define your nation, what can you level, e.g. thunderstriking, astral, elementals, earth buffs, blood, what is recruitable anywhere and good, what are some summons you are likely able to get and are useable

Earth (max 3, rarely 4)
Death (max 3, rarely 4)
Fire (max 2, rarely 3)
Water (max 2)
Astral (max 1, rarely 2)

What is the best spell you can use in combat. What spells the best support your national lineup, Is their weakness that you need to fix? Any tricks you should be aware you have?

What is the best ritual you could cast. Are their any globals you want up, any units you should be summoning? Are there any Generic rituals few nations can cast?

Do you have any National items(Price and required Paths), Discounted items(Reduced Price and required Paths)? Any unique items few nations can forge? What item would be useful on your unit lineup (non-standard recommend thug gear)?

• Mercury Barrel: Requires Construction 6 and 11 (every Ktonian Alchemist). Costs 55. Replaces the summoning ritual of a Living Mercury from previous eras. Gives you a free Water Elemental every battle except that it is stronger, tougher and has a poison cloud. Can beef up your army, especially underwater. More worthwhile than Bottle of Living Water for using on a battlefield unless you accidentally kill your own troops. Since Agartha has no national access to nature magic for resisting poison, the best ways to use this would be with undead who don't care about poison, or a poison resistance bless with your Blindfighters. Alternatively, you could just have all of your humans guarding your commanders and let the barrels do the work, but this can easily backfire if something gets to your commanders and the friendly cloud of deadly poison drifts back to assist. Having undead commanders helps.

How to expand, potential pitfalls and how to get around them, obvious weakness strength, how much do you have to focus on war/infrastructure

what is the first big research rush, what is the first big powerspike, where do you shift recruitment to? what are the big magic diversity issues, are there particular globals you should gun for

How do you close out the game if you are in it, is the high-level research stuff you can do uniquely well, does your nation fall off, aka do you have to force things to conclude swiftly

youtube of someone discussing the nation
guide page on steam??
forum thread or AAR

	Nations
Early Ages	Arcoscephale • Ermor • Ulm • Marverni • Sauromatia • T'ien Ch'i • Machaka • Mictlan • Abysia • Caelum • C'tis • Pangaea • Agartha • Tir na n'Og • Fomoria • Vanheim • Helheim • Niefelheim • Rus • Kailasa • Lanka • Yomi • Hinnom • Ur • Berytos • Xibalba • Mekone • Ubar • Atlantis • R'lyeh • Pelagia • Oceania • Therodos
Middle Ages	Arcoscephale • Ermor • Sceleria • Pythium • Man • Eriu • Ulm • Marignon • Mictlan • T'ien Ch'i • Machaka • Agartha • Abysia • Caelum • C'tis • Pangaea • Asphodel • Vanheim • Jotunheim • Vanarus • Bandar Log • Shinuyama • Ashdod • Uruk • Nazca • Xibalba • Phlegra • Phaeacia • Ind • Na'ba • Atlantis • R'lyeh • Pelagia • Oceania • Ys
Late Ages	Arcoscephale • Pythium • Lemuria • Man • Ulm • Marignon • Mictlan • T'ien Ch'i • Jomon • Agartha • Abysia • Caelum • C'tis • Pangaea • Midgård • Utgård • Bogarus • Patala • Gath • Ragha • Xibalba • Phlegra • Vaettiheim • Atlantis • R'lyeh • Erytheia